# 3 — Competition and Testing

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# 3 — Competition and Testing

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Jan 27, 2018

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The importance of competition and testing.

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Jan 27, 2018

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The intersection of Effort, Art and Philosophy, a.k.a. The Worst Fitness Podcast in the World, formerly known as The Dissect Podcast. Hosts Michael Blevins and Mark Twight explore the overlapping worlds of effort, action, art, digital and analog in conversations riddled with innuendo, inside jokes, and occasional insight. If you know, you know. Published weekly, usually.

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# 11 — Vance Jacobs: Mark and Michael sit down with coach, trainer and athlete Kegan Dillon to speak with photographer Vance Jacobs whose work has taken him to over 40 countries, and whose physical capabilities have allowed him to participate in many of the stories he shoo... by The NonProphet Podcast
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# 19 — Chris Worden: Chris Worden is a photo journalist, motorcycle enthusiast, and student of physical fitness. He sat down with Michael and Mark to talk about their auspicious friendship, the importance of being a “thinking man”, by The NonProphet Podcast
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# 3 — Competition and Testing: The importance of competition and testing. by The NonProphet Podcast
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# 27 — Boone Speed: Mark and Michael speak with Boone Speed about his introduction to sport climbing, basically inventing it in the vacuum of the Wasatch without much exposure to early, outside developments, and that some of the hardest routes in the country developed out... by The NonProphet Podcast
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# 1 — We Have to Start Somewhere: In the beginning … by The NonProphet Podcast
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# 37 — Kegan is Becoming Endurance Jesus: Mark, Michael and Kegan talk about fitness models, silly air bike challenges, supplemental oxygen, structuring training to overcome self-imposed limitations, and what happens when a 300-pound power lifter can starts doing endurance activities. by The NonProphet Podcast
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# 18 — Josh Vandenbrink: Josh Vandenbrink is the owner, operator, and artist at Iron Mountain Designs, where he has built a company from the ground up. He sat down with Mark, Michael, and Kegan to talk about his time as a PJ, patriotism, and the topic of freedom. by The NonProphet Podcast
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# 44 — Scott Backes (1): Mark and Michael speak to Scott Backes, with whom Mark climbed some difficult and beautiful routes back in the day, and who Mark describes as, “The wisest man I know.” Despite living in Minnesota, Scott discovered climbing in the ’70s, by The NonProphet Podcast
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# 41 — Heber Cannon: Heber Cannon is a Director, Writer, and Cinematographer. To date, his four documentaries have captured the journey of what makes a CrossFit Games champion. Heber sat with Michael and Mark to discuss capturing physicality, PED use, by The NonProphet Podcast
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# 10 — Motivation: Mark, Michael, Paul and Ross discuss the positive aspects of negative thinking, their contempt for motivational posters and postings (on social media), the true meaning of the term “Die Trying”, and the difference between real family and #family. by The NonProphet Podcast
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# 24 — Andy Dorais and Brian Harder: Michael and Mark speak with Andy Dorais, an E.R. physician who has represented the U.S. in the Ski Mountaineering World Championships, holds the fastest known time on the White Rim Trail near Moab, and once traversed the summits of the SLC skyline: 65 ... by The NonProphet Podcast
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# 9 — Shawn Kingrey on Endurance Cycling: Michael and Mark speak with Shawn Kingrey (introduced in Episode 8) about the psychological demands of endurance bike racing. Specifically, he talks about the Four Horsemen, which he won in 2014 in 18hrs 21min, by The NonProphet Podcast
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# 74 — Ben Staley (2): In May 2019 Ben Staley drove through town on the way home from a job in Idaho. We talked about art, Dennis Hopper, the (un)importance of the tool, how fitness affects creativity, what we want to make in the future, by The NonProphet Podcast
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# 49 — Desire and Inadequacy: Mark, Michael, and Kegan talk about the influence that male bodies seen on the big screen has on the self-esteem of young men, or any males who can't help but compare themselves to what they see in a movie. by The NonProphet Podcast
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# 14 — Matthew Weatherly-White: In the longest conversation they have recorded so far Michael and Mark sit down with Matthew Weatherly-White to discuss recovery, athletic longevity, endurance, desiccants, exercising for an audience, intelligent self-awareness, transubstantiation, by The NonProphet Podcast
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# 8 — Value: Mark, Michael, Paul and Shawn Kingrey discuss Value: what they value and what has value, and how perspective changes it. Michael defends his title as the King of Tangents. by The NonProphet Podcast
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# 2 — The origin of RAZE: A conversation about how the RAZE Zine came to be, along with Michael's run-in with a ’95 Honda driver on his way into the studio. by The NonProphet Podcast
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# 39 — Rebecca Rusch (1): Rebecca Rusch has a nickname: The Queen of Pain, which she earned … well, you’ll have to listen to learn that. Reba was a climber before she began adventure racing, which was before she started riding a mountain bike—something she did formally at 38 ye... by The NonProphet Podcast
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# 26 — Steven Kotler and Kristen Ulmer: “Steven Kotler is a New York Times bestselling author, an award-winning journalist and the co-founder and director of research of the Flow Genome Project.” He sits down with Mark, Michael, and Kristen Ulmer to discuss drugs, flow states, by The NonProphet Podcast
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# 29 — Burkey (1): Chris Burkeybyle recently traveled from Detroit, Michigan where he owns and operates a few businesses, including the gym: Station 515. Mark and Michael have a long history with Burkey, which allowed them the opportunity to explore the details of owning... by The NonProphet Podcast
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# 36 — Andy Stumpf, Cleared Hot: Mark, Michael and Ross speak with Andy Stumpf, a former Navy SEAL who played on the varsity squad for most of his career. He is the host of the Cleared Hot podcast, a consultant, an active BASE jumper and wing suit pilot who also flies airplanes. by The NonProphet Podcast
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# 38 — Tim Johnson and Payson McElveen: In early-September Mark and Michael sat down with Red Bull team members Tim Johnson and Payson McElveen midway through the Queen’s Stage Race put on by Rebecca Rusch. Tim is a six-time national cyclocross champion who competed in numerous UCI world cha... by The NonProphet Podcast
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# 30 — Burkey (2): Chris Burkeybyle recently traveled from Detroit, Michigan where he owns and operates a few businesses, including the gym: Station 515. Mark and Michael have a long history with Burkey, which allowed them the opportunity to explore the details of owning... by The NonProphet Podcast
20 min listen
# 77 — Bolivian Adventure: Mark relates a story to Ben Staley and Trevor Thompson about a trip to Bolivia in 1996. Of course, there is climbing talk but the more interesting aspects of the journey had little to do with that — especially reviewed 23 years later. by The NonProphet Podcast
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# 43 — George Briones: George Briones a former Recon Marine and current Head of Human Performance for Soflete, a company started by current and former SOF personnel to better train the tactical athlete. Soflete was formed to fill a specific void in the fitness industry but h... by The NonProphet Podcast
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# 50 — Bike Path, aka MFT in the Hot Seat: Michael, Joe, and Kegan put Mark in the hot seat to discuss his relationship to the bike, how it became a surrogate for climbing, and chasing similarly (sometimes) transformative experiences using a different means. by The NonProphet Podcast
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# 46 — Shawn Kingrey and the Nightmare Tour: Mark recorded this episode with Shawn Kingrey five hours after Shawn won “Death By” variant of the Nightmare Tour fondo/race, which traces the perimeter of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, covering 225 miles and 22,000 feet of climbing in 14 hrs 39 min. by The NonProphet Podcast
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# 69 — Everest, CrossFit, Etc.: Mark praises Greg Glassman for "deplatforming" Facebook, Michael revisits the Authority issue, Mark mocks a (Southern) politician for his domestic violence arrest, and then tees off on the acquisition culture of so-called Everest climbers, "... by The NonProphet Podcast
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# 62 — Calories In, Logic Out: We haven't addressed the topic of Nutrition for a while and it seems like the water is as muddy as ever. Michael and Mark discuss a couple of current trends, the phenomenon of "Triggering" and how people will reject the science of a subject if it doesn... by The NonProphet Podcast
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# 48 — Billy Innes (1): In this episode Mark, Michael and Kegan speak with former professional cyclist and current artist and U.S. Junior National Team Director Billy Innes. Originally from Brooklyn, Billy now calls Menlo Park “home” - that is when he is not living in Europe ... by The NonProphet Podcast
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